Spring-buffer for car-fenders.



No. 815,921. PATENTED MAR. 20, 1906.

. B. LEV.

WITNESSES: INVENTOJDQ.

M ATTORNEY.

" i UNITED' STATES PATENTOFFIGE.

BENJAMIN LEV, or CLEVELAND, 01110, AssIeNoE To EcLiPsE RAILWAY SUPPLY 00.. OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, A con- PORATION OF DELAWARE.

SPRING-BUFFER FOR'CAR-FEND'EIRS.

To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, BENJAMIN LEV, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new. and useful construction and arrangement of parts substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the car with my improved fender mechanism thereon. Fig. 2 is a side elevation'of the immediate front of the car-body and a side elevation of my invention with part of the fender broken away. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one end of the spring or buffer frameyand Fig. 4 is a plan view, partly in section, of the support therefor from the hanger. I

The invention as thus shown appertains to the style of fender in which there is a pivoted carrier adapted to pick up and convey has persons who happen to come in the path of a movin car and might otherwise be seriously injure or killed and in connection with which there is ordinarily used a spring-frame or series of springs across the front of the car at the rear of said carrier and usually separate or apart therefrom. I-Ieretofore such springframes or springs have been rigid, or practically so, at their bottom, so that at this point, at least, there was little or no real spring action, and hence very little or no cushioning protection to the person who was thrown I against this part of the device, and since accidents are liable to occur when cars are running at a very high speed and the impact against the springs is very severe I have conceived an improvement in the buffer which is intended to equalize its resiliency and provide something like a uniform spring action to the same over its entire surface, whether a spring-frame of usual construction be employed or a frame that is practically rigid. This is accomplished. by employing a set of Specification of-Letters' Patent. Application filed July 15, 1904. Serial No. 216,726.

spring-supports which in themselves have resiliency enoughto afford all the spring action that may be necessary.

- Patented March 20, 1906.

To these ends A represents a car; B, a set of suitable hangers or fender-supports attached in any suitable way; C, the usual pivoted or tilting carrier, and D a supportingframe or side supports or braces upon which.

the carrier is pivoted at its front.

G represents socket-brackets adjustablyf clamped on the lower ends of hangers B and upon which carrying supporting-frame D is pivoted.

S represents two fairly heavy steel springs fixed at one end to the lower cross bar or slat h of the buffer-frame orbufier H and at the other end seated from the top downward in suitable keepers, sockets, or openings 9 in-the sides of the said brackets G. The said springs S are purposely made of a size, weight, and length and of such curvature as to serve both as a sufficient support for the buffer or frame H and to give all the spring or cushioning effect that is required to protect a person who is thrown violently across the carrier against the said buffer, the object in any event being to'prevent injury to the person in contact with the buffer and to so cushion the blow that it will be absorbed in the spring and not inflict injury to the person. This effect is obtained by or throughthe springs S, carryin frame H, and said frame may be made rigi or of rigid material or more or less springy or flexible, as heretofore, and hence may be pro- Vided With slats 7t, suitably connected or of wires or wire mesh or other material and in any suitable form. The sprin s S are adapted to be lifted bodily out of t eir sockets or seats and removed with the frame H when for any reason it becomes desirable or necesas to enable the buffer or buffer-frame to rest thereon.

What I claim is 1. In car-fenders, a new article of manufacture consisting of a buffer-frame and springs fixed to the bottom of said frame and constructed to be removably engaged upon supports.

2. In car-fenders, a bufier constructed to stand across the front of a car, hangers to support the same, and springs supporting said buffer from said hangers.

3. In carfenders, supports adapted to be connected with a car, a buffer-frame and springs fixed thereto and removably seated upon the said supports.

4. In car-fenders, suitable hangers pro vided with brackets at their lower ends, a buf- 

